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The 24th Annual Elks Youth Rodeo will be held on Saturday and Sunday. This event brings participants from all over including Canada, Washington, and even New Mexico. One of the organizers Bob Strauser explained how the rodeo came about back in 1993.

Local author Sam Western, writer for the Economist, LIFE, and Sports Illustrated magazines and author of “Pushed Off the Mountain Sold Down the River” will offer his course “Wyoming’s Community and Economy: The Conversation We’re Having Behind Closed Doors” at Sheridan College this September.

Where can you find bloody marys, live music and a dutch oven cook-off? Just head up to Story on Friday and you can experience all of those things as part of the 3 day festival, Story Days.

The last couple of days have seen Sheridan County covered in a thick smoky haze. According to Dan Borsum, a Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Billings, the smoke has been coming from the west.

The Sheridan County Museum is starting History Express in October, a new program geared towards teens and tweens between the ages of 11 and 18.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation will host a groundbreaking ceremony Monday at 2 pm for the multi-year $46.4 million North Sheridan Interchange Project.

The Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt was founded in 2013 by the Wyoming Women’s Foundation as an opportunity to mentor and develop camaraderie between women.

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